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    Ken Hammond

    Ken Hammond is Professor of History at New Mexico State University. Hammond was a student and Students for a Democratic Society leader at Kent State University from 1967 to 1970. While at Kent State, Hammond authored a study of local politics entitled Who Rules Kent? and was active during the May 4, 1970 shootings at the university. He was indicted as one of the "Kent 25". Hammond received his B.A. from Kent State University in History and Political Science, and M.A. in Regional Studies - East Asia and Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. His current research is on China’s historical political economy, especially in the early modern period (900-1800), and on the history of market towns and urban development in China. He has published numerous books and articles on Chinese intellectual and political history. His latest book, China’s Revolution and the Quest for a Socialist Future, was published in May 2023. From 2007 to 2015 he was co-director of the Confucius Institute at New Mexico State, which was closed in 2020 due to political pressure from the Federal government.

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